Re: Forcing the Issue: Universal Healthcare for Americans


"kurtfilm" <kinderbitzin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Forcing the Issue: Universal Healthcare for Americans
>
> There are now 60 million uninsured Americans: 60 million Americans who
> face financial ruin each day should they be struck with cancer or heart
> disease or a disabling accident. Moreover, there are thousands of
> American companies struggling, often unsuccessfully, to compete with
> foreign competitors who are NOT saddled with huge health care costs
> which, among developed nations, American companies alone must shoulder.
>
> Yet, with both of these painful realities receiving substantial
> media-play, there doesn't seem to be any real push in Congress, and
> certainly not in the White House, to begin the process of offering
> Universal Health Care. It's just not on the table, and given the
> huge debt of the federal government, and the interests of powerful
> corporations and individuals that will be damaged should the federal
> government ever offer Universal coverage, it doesn't seem like it
> will be on the table anytime soon.
>
> Is there a solution? A way to push the issue, to "force," so to
> speak, the Federal government to finally take on this issue? There
> certainly is. And it rests with a handful of states. Here's the
> scenario:
>
> Imagine if one of the richer states - Massachussette, New York, or
> perhaps California (notwithstanding its own recent financial woes) bit
> the bullet and decided to offer Universal Heathcare to its citizens.
> Financial disaster? Let's see.

I can't speak in depth for NY or CA, but MA already does. It's just not
called that. It's called freecare. Essentially no one in MA goes without
insurance. It's been that way for years.

The uninsured number is artificially inflated. I think all children should
be covered completely for a host of reasons. That 60 million gets smaller
without them. Take away all the people who ELECT not to have insurance due
to stupidity and it's smaller still. There are a lot of things that need to
be done, but one of the first steps is a mandatory health insurance. Just
like mandatory car insurance.


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